Edytta Wojnar's poems throb with surprises. We find here evanescent desires, personal and communal losses, and heart-felt melancholia for the left-behind country and native tongue. But there is also sheer playfulness of language (or rather languages as Wojnar occasionally interweaves her lyrics with her native Polish words), which does not describe but acts and reenacts. These poems "walk on their eyelashes" and they...
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